Sometimes people are warned, and sometimes they aren’t, depending on the circumstances. By volume, the vast majority of our bans are spammers, who aren’t warned. Of users who have posted more than 3 posts to the site, I believe over half (and probably closer to 80%?) are warned, and many are warned and then not banned. [See this list.]
Yeah, almost everyone who we ban who has any real content on the site is warned. It didn’t feel necessary for curi, because he has already received so much feedback about his activity on the site over the years (from many users as well as mods), and I saw very little probability of things changing because of a warning.
Yeah, almost everyone who we ban who has any real content on the site is warned. It didn’t feel necessary for curi, because he has already received so much feedback about his activity on the site over the years (from many users as well as mods), and I saw very little probability of things changing because of a warning.
I think you’re denying him an important chance to do error correction via that decision. (This is a particularly important concept in CR/FI)
curi evidently wanted to change some things about his behaviour, otherwise he wouldn’t have updated his commenting policy. How do you know he wouldn’t have updated it more if you’d warned him? That’s exactly the type of criticism we (CR/FI) think is useful.
That sort of update is exactly the type of thing that would be reasonable to expect next time he came back (considering that he was away for 2 weeks when the ban was announced). He didn’t want to be banned, and he didn’t want to have shitty discussions, either. (I don’t know those things for certain, but I have high confidence.)
What probability would you assign to him continuing just as before if you said something like “If you keep continuing what you’re doing, I will ban you. It’s for these reasons.” Ideally, you could add “Here they are in the rules/faq/whatever”.
Practically, the chance of him changing is lower now because there isn’t any point if he’s never given any chances. So in some ways you were exactly right to think there’s low probability of him changing, it’s just that it was due to your actions. Actions which don’t need to be permanent, might I add.
I think you’re denying him an important chance to do error correction via that decision. (This is a particularly important concept in CR/FI)
I agree that if we wanted to extend him more opportunities/resources/etc., we could, and that a ban is a decision to not do that. But it seems to me like you’re focusing on the benefit to him / “is there any chance he would get better?”, as opposed to the benefit to the community / “is it reasonable to expect that he would get better?”.
As stewards of the community, we need to make decisions taking into account both the direct impact (on curi for being banned or not) and the indirect impact (on other people deciding whether or not to use the site, or their experience being better or worse).
I’m not sure about other cases, but in this case curi wasn’t warned. If you’re interested, he and I discuss the ban in the first 30 mins of this stream
Additionally, I’d like to know whether people are warned before they are banned, and whether they are asked about their own view of the matter.
Sometimes people are warned, and sometimes they aren’t, depending on the circumstances. By volume, the vast majority of our bans are spammers, who aren’t warned. Of users who have posted more than 3 posts to the site, I believe over half (and probably closer to 80%?) are warned, and many are warned and then not banned. [See this list.]
Yeah, almost everyone who we ban who has any real content on the site is warned. It didn’t feel necessary for curi, because he has already received so much feedback about his activity on the site over the years (from many users as well as mods), and I saw very little probability of things changing because of a warning.
I think you’re denying him an important chance to do error correction via that decision. (This is a particularly important concept in CR/FI)
curi evidently wanted to change some things about his behaviour, otherwise he wouldn’t have updated his commenting policy. How do you know he wouldn’t have updated it more if you’d warned him? That’s exactly the type of criticism we (CR/FI) think is useful.
That sort of update is exactly the type of thing that would be reasonable to expect next time he came back (considering that he was away for 2 weeks when the ban was announced). He didn’t want to be banned, and he didn’t want to have shitty discussions, either. (I don’t know those things for certain, but I have high confidence.)
What probability would you assign to him continuing just as before if you said something like “If you keep continuing what you’re doing, I will ban you. It’s for these reasons.” Ideally, you could add “Here they are in the rules/faq/whatever”.
Practically, the chance of him changing is lower now because there isn’t any point if he’s never given any chances. So in some ways you were exactly right to think there’s low probability of him changing, it’s just that it was due to your actions. Actions which don’t need to be permanent, might I add.
I agree that if we wanted to extend him more opportunities/resources/etc., we could, and that a ban is a decision to not do that. But it seems to me like you’re focusing on the benefit to him / “is there any chance he would get better?”, as opposed to the benefit to the community / “is it reasonable to expect that he would get better?”.
As stewards of the community, we need to make decisions taking into account both the direct impact (on curi for being banned or not) and the indirect impact (on other people deciding whether or not to use the site, or their experience being better or worse).
I’m not sure about other cases, but in this case curi wasn’t warned. If you’re interested, he and I discuss the ban in the first 30 mins of this stream